Holding the Line for your Neighbor - The Story of George Floyd Square - Jeanelle Austin, Executive Director and co-founder of the George Floyd Global Memorial and Lead Caretaker of the memorials at George Floyd Square, will join us to share the story of George Floyd Square at 38th St & Chicago Ave in Minneapolis, […]
Watch the forgotten story of New Jersey's enslaved people in the two-part documentary that aired on NJ PBS this summer: The Price of Silence: The Forgotten Story of New Jersey’s Enslaved People. The film will be followed by dessert and a panel discussion with filmmaker Ridgley Hutchinson, co-authors Beverly Mills and Elaine Buck (If These Stones Could […]
Visit the True Farmstead and newly-restored Mt. Zion AME Church next month for Somerset County's annual JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAST weekend. SSAAM is one of more than 30 local historic sites that will welcome visitors with fun and educational activities for the whole family. Join us on SATURDAY OCTOBER 8 & SUNDAY OCTOBER 9 for: MUSEUM TOURS - […]
What can the quantitative approach reveal, but, more importantly, in what situations can it not tell us what we need to know, both because of the inherent limits of quantification and because of the way knowledge is socially constructed in quantitative communities? Annual James Baldwin Lecture series speaker, Arvind Narayanan, is a professor of computer […]
Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists reveals how Black artist/teachers were integral and influential members in a white regional community in the last quarter of the 20th century. While there have been blockbuster exhibitions of a few contemporary Black artists during recent years of efforts by museums […]
Join the Living Legacy Project on a 5-day pilgrimage to learn Mississippi’s Civil Rights Movement history from visiting the sites and speaking with people who lived it. Registration is open now and is capped at 40 participants. Reserve your seat on the bus today! You'll find information about registration, fees, cancellation policy, scholarship information, travel insurance, […]
A program sponsored by The Sankofa Collaborative. The keynote speaker is Dr. Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers University and an eminent historian specializing in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on social and intellectual history. Dr. Holloway is the author of several books, most recently The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans, published […]
Saladin Ambar joined the Eagleton Institute of Politics in 2017. Dr. Ambar is a Senior Scholar at Eagleton’s Center on the American Governor and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of four books, including Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press), which […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, will be in conversation with Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change on how The 1619 Project has become a catalyst for America’s most recent wave of challenges and bans. Click here to register.
Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice by Dr. Ruha Benjamin is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day. Vividly recounting her personal experiences and those of her family, Benjamin shows how seemingly minor decisions and habits could spread virally and have exponentially positive effects. […]
This spin on the traditional Mexican bingo game is a chance for community members to get to know each other through fun and interesting questions. Residents of Princeton are invited to meet their neighbors, discover their differences and embrace their similarities. Weather permitting, the loteria will be played in the community room with twenty participants […]
Speakers: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (University of Miami), Jocelyn Fenton Stitt (St. Catherine’s University), Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University) Discussant: Rachel Price (Princeton University) Chair: Andy Alfonso (DCE1, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) Moderator: Jannia Gómez González (G5, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) Second panel of the Caribbean Studies Speakers Series (CSSS), which represents a collective […]